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foreshadowing

[fawr-shad-oh-ing] / ˌfɔrˈʃæd oʊ ɪŋ /


















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It is ironic that Harrison’s protest against taxation ended up foreshadowing private markets’ capture of artistic value.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Reinhart, the BNY economist, said the absence of foreshadowing makes Waller’s dissent more consequential.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

Even the announcement of the Ashes squad was an anticlimactic foreshadowing of things to come.

From BBC • Dec. 21, 2025

Depictions of the digital afterlife in shows such as “Black Mirror” can feel bleak, foreshadowing a dystopian future where people get resurrected from the grave as chatbots and robots.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025

In the months to come they would draw together even more closely just as I would hold to them—my moment of separateness a foreshadowing, but not yet a reality.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston